Theo Knights
@TheoKnights
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PhD Student of early modern Ottoman history. Interested in histories of commerce, customs, and corruption in Ottoman lands.
Joined September 2018
Pleased to have my review of Nil Palabıyık's fascinating book, "Silent Teachers: Turkish Books and Oriental Learning in Early Modern Europe," out in @zemin_dergi! The book answers a problem that always confounded me while browsing the Bodleian's collection of Ottoman MSS. .
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And for those that say the frank talk of university finances is more promising than expected. Ask yourself, is this really a suitable public reckoning for a leadership team that blew the University’s endowment on fart coin….
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To be clear: I am pro cutting administrative bloat, I just suspect that “elaborate divisional and academic structures that are burdensome to faculty time” is in fact a euphemism for the CMES MA or the SALC Department….
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One simple solution to spending too much money on useless vanity projects for fields that are not historically our strengths, is to simply stop building them. The president, however, can only promise to scale down investment on a building named for a discipline we don’t teach!
Announcing forthcoming layoffs and a $100 million reduction in spending, UChicago President Alivisatos addresses the pauses in doctoral admissions. He says costs have risen while external support has declined. He predicts “smaller but better doctoral programs” going forward.
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This is all quite vague but it is, ofc, not difficult to imagine what some of this “streamlining” might mean for Title VI centers and Area Studies departments…
Announcing forthcoming layoffs and a $100 million reduction in spending, UChicago President Alivisatos addresses the pauses in doctoral admissions. He says costs have risen while external support has declined. He predicts “smaller but better doctoral programs” going forward.
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RT @imeupolicy: NEW QUINNIPIAC POLL. 60% of voters want to end weapons to Israel: 75% of Democrats, 66% of Independents and 37% of Republic….
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Honestly if professional opinion havers just get to make up bullshit facts about higher education in support of their priors, then academics should be permitted to employ false facts in return.
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RT @Tyler_A_Harper: Worth noting: most chairs in the humanities departments that were NOT paused demanded their own admissions be paused to….
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So happy to see MES faculty finally speaking out publicly to call out the dean's idiotic cuts to the Humanities at UChicago!
The University of Chicago recently announced pauses on admissions to some of its humanities doctoral programs. @Tyler_A_Harper argues that it's “a particular gut-punch to the humanities, not just at the university itself, but nationally and even globally.”
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Things are bad with gradeflation and all, but there was no way that stat made sense lol. The Hess and Fournier sentence is just poorly phrased.
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.@GeorgeWill 's reading of the Hess and Fournier article as well as the National Survey of Student Engagement is erroneous. 74% of first years have reported no writing assignment longer than 11 pages. The survey only asks about writing.
“In 1961, the average full-time student at a four-year college studied 24 hours a week; today the figure is 14 hours.“. “In 2024, 74 percent of first-year students reported no reading assignment longer than 11 pages and no writing assignment longer than five pages.”
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RT @cszabla: if only this were true and it didn’t feel like real historical research was constantly being overwhelmed by slop videos, cred….
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RT @reclaimuc: "Possibly the most notorious example [of University of Chicago's poor investment decisions] is the university’s foray into c….
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While Stanford responded to the federal funding research freeze by halting administrative hiring and protecting research, the University of Chicago panicked. On January 28, hours after the Trump...
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RT @habibsacmali: "And after cutting Ahmed Pasha into pieces, they called him 'Hezar Pare' ('Thousand-piece').". (Ve Ahmed Paşa'yı rize riz….
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Lmao @pmarca thanks so much for the follow, really excited to talk abt the future of Ottoman Handwritten Text Recognition. I think this is your next unicorn!!!
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RT @ontologoff: The University of fucking Chicago. Purely ideological decisions masked as financial considerations. a huge leap in the neo….
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RT @kelly_erin_: how is uchicago so broke when they have all those predatory masters programs? lol.
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RT @cheekybigfoot: @TheoKnights It would be funny if it weren't so tragic that they make a horribly unpopular decision, only to send out a….
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